Week's Important News Notes Condensed Briefly
Motions from Arrenville France report the marriage of Baroness Vaughen widow of King Leopold to Emmanuel Durieux at Arrenville. Swope of Kokomo Indiana claims part of Bal Thomas H. Swope estate. Roosevelt declines active 1920 campaign role. Emperors and diplomats mark Francis Joseph’s 80th birthday. A Black Hand threat targets International President Lewis with a mailed letter and weapon. Armour & Co chief counsel Urion cleared of obstruction of justice. Colonel Isaac Lillwood shows improvement at De Kalb Illinois.
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Vaughen
Leopold
Emmanuel Durieux
Arrenville
Balincourt
France
Adam J. Swope
Kokoma
Qnt
Bal Thomas H. Swope
Aughan
Leopold Ofelgium
Arronville
Balcourt
Barioness
Roosevelt
New York State
State Committee
Francis Joseph
Austria
Sch
House of Hapsburg
T. L. Lewis
Illinois
Alfred R. Urion
Harmour & Co
Chicago
Landis
Federal Grand Jury
Isaac Lillwood
de Kalb
Four fatal and injuring crashes and political clashes reported
A Kenton accident killed a four year old girl and injured her mother while others survived, a Washington coroner blamed insanity from smoking for a baby killed by its father, a New York Negro league speech defended by wealth, Longworth criticizes Cannon, Versailles hosts a statue dedication, and Chilean President Montt dies en route to Bad Nauheim amid global political shifts.
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Theodore Lewis
Lewis
Clarence Manley
Charles Johnson
Kenton
Washington, D.C
William J. Carvel
Scott Bond
Arkansas
Darky
Negro Business Men's League
New York City
Theodore Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Heverly
Mass
Cannon
Napoleon Hall
Chateau
Versailles
France
General Brun
United States
M. Jusserand
Robert Bacon
Illinois National Guard
Peoria
Deneen
Montt
Chile
Berlin
Bad Nauheim
Bucklin
Mengs
Zeeeph G. Nichol
Chicago
Iver
The Hard Maples Need More Water
Indianapolis entomologist B W Douglass explains maples suffer from drought not insects as city sidewalks pavements and sewers block roots. He advises tearing up walks and letting water soak the base of trees to prolong life and suggests replacing hard maples with less water reliant species.
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Indianapolis
B. W. Douglass
Douglass
Incorporation Filings Reveal Steel City Building and Loan and Buning Larger Co
Articles filed with the secretary of state show Steel City Building and Loan Association in Gary with capital stock of 250000 and named directors Forreat UL Bartholomew Franklin Crandall Arthur C Kunert Julius Bohm Otto C Bormann Forest P Rundell and J McNaughton. Buning Larger Company of Indianapolis lists capital stock of 15000 and directors John H Buning James L Larger P A Buning and B Eagle.
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Steel City Building and Loan Association
Gary
Capital
Forreat UL. Bartholomew
Franklin Crandall
Arthur C. Kunert
Julius Bohm
Otto C. Bormann
Forrest P. Rundell
J. McNaughton
Buning
Indianapolis
John H. Buning
James
P. A. Buning
Eagle
Cincinnati Markets Summary of Commodities and Livestock
Cincinnati reports a detailed roundup of market prices for butter poultry eggs fruits vegetables and grains. It lists ranges for butter extras poultry meats dairy apples huckleberries peaches potatoes pears plums corn beans tomatoes and sugar corn along with live stock cattle hogs sheep lambs and calves prices by grade regionally and by class. Grain includes wheat corn oats barley rye malt and timothy hay with various No numbers and grades.
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Cincinnati
Sentiment Improves Amid Mixed Trade Signals
R G Dun reports improving sentiment despite ongoing trade contraction with firmer tone in dry goods and firm cotton textiles. Pig iron production steady, orders rising in some finished steel lines, while leather and hides show uneven gains. Business failures tally 222 in the U S, 26 in Canada, with wheat and corn exports up year over year for seven weeks ending August 18.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Fall River
India
Far East
China
Ned Sea
New England
Bradstreet
United States
Canada
Mrs Wiggin on London in light humor
During Mrs Wiggin the American author visited London an interviewer asked her opinion of the city. With a smile she compared London to a dining room scene and recounted a joke about a young lady who pressed Dr Gibbon to tell of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
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Victor Emmanuel I
Quess Helena
Italy
Ilinois
John Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Thomas L. Lewis
Indianapolis
Mitchell
Illinois
Peoria
Lewis
Acta
Browne
E. H. Fortmiller
Chicago
Dorothy Bartlett
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
N. C
Burley Tobacco Society
Pennsylvania
Plymouth
Ind
Vandalia
Lake Erie & Western
Lote
Baridelle
Pugne
Salt Lake City
John B. Mofasant
English Channel
Calais
Tilmanstone
Bleriot
de Lesseps
Rolls
Bournemouth
Lee O'Neil Browne
Keraten
Daniel Cummings
Thomas J. Bent
Cummings
Bent
Columbia Cheek
Atlanta
Guy H. Buchanan
Miss Cheek
Yee Hong
el Paso
Tex
Hong
China
Colorado
Shafroth
Why was I born before Ethel
A humorous Tit-Bits item in which Tommy asks why his mother puts ladies first at dinner and quips that he was born before Ethel, prompting a playful household exchange about birth order.
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Tommy
Mamma
Ethel
Rest and Summer Plans Quietly Revealed in Banter
A lighthearted exchange centers on Mrs. Brown and a manly expectation of summer chores. The dialogue hints at traditional roles and everyday life, capturing a quaint domestic moment. No major events or names beyond Mrs. Brown appear.
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General News
Russia
National Negro Business Men's League
Lee O'Neill Browne
Lorimer
Illnois Central Road
London
Hygland
H. H. Cmppon
London Chronicle
Public Utilities Commission
Indiana
Indiana Electric Light Association
Denison Hotel
Thomas C. McReynolds
Kokomo
Kokomo, Marion & Western Traction Company
McReynolds
Railroad Commission
Hammond
England
H. C. Garman
State Board of Medical Registration and
Alpheus Leroy Thurston
Grover C. Pritchett
Terre Haute
Alvin R. Kerr
Gustav Herman Esch
Elbert Shirk Waymire
William Lorne Yule
Logansport
George Beam Hunt
White Water
Daniel Edger Lybrook
Young America
E. T. Edwarde
Oliver O. Alexander
William Moore Thompson
Ligonier
Herbert Wellman Detrick
Union City
E. F. Magenheimer
Fort Wayne
James William Jackson
Blanche Horner
Flora
James Blaine Shoemaker
Noblesville
Raymond Judson Ives
George H. Hackett
J. T. Kennedy
Thomasb. Govan
New Salisbury
Albert B. Cleage
Henry Washington Gante
Anderson
Lawrence G. Griffis
Middletown
William Jay Davis
Linton
Samuel Alvin Smoots
Corydon
Edward Arthur Spohm
Otis Alexander Caldwell
Moses Haven Baker
Stockwell
Joe Jones Wood
Franklin
Frederick Hershman
Edwin E. Dougherty
Ira E. Bowman
Frederick HE. Jackson
P. H. Wood
Philadelphia
Samuel C. Murphy
Nellie Jane Hanaway
Chauncey Marshall Gillespie
Whiting
Earl J. Cripe
Mason B. Light
Broad Ripple
Virgil Gwinn McDonald
Herbert Lewis
Frederic T. Sprowl
Rocco Andrew Montant
Edward A. Carlson
Madison
Henry Oscar Howelson
Alfred W. Hadley
Mooresville
Charles C. Sutter
Charles Edwin Woods
Lafayette
Clyde Monroe Fish
Rochester
Andrew Guffin Cooper
Scircleville
Arthur Mitchell
Hetherington
Roscoe L. Lee
Waldron
James Monroe Hancock
Henry Evans Washburn
Clinton
Lawrence B. Bitz
Evansville
William Kendall Adair
New Washington
William Alex Johnson
Perrysville
John Curtis Irwin
Indianapoli
Clarence Augustus Toles
Charles Raymond Elfers
Cora Roy Graham
Geneva
William V. Boyle
David Nelson Conner
Archibald A. Bond
Carmel
Charles F. Morris
Walter C. Stephens
Westfield
Gompers
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Democratic State Committee
Myron King
Bert Hendren
Speakers’ Bureau
William E. Springer
Elizabethtown
Republican State Committee
Beveridge
Seventh Day Adventists
Indiana Conference
Winona Technical Institute
A. G. Daniels
Washington, D. C
General Conference of
Europe
Law
Robert J. Aley
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Education
Atudenta
Dun
Wellville
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